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PUBLISHED AND COPYRIGHTED 
BY 

PRATT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 

26 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 

1890. 




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J J£$ii s little book is written especially for 
Women. It is short, and can easily 
■^jibe read in less than ten minutes. 



It treats of a subject in which every 

an is interested. It tells 

her how to save time, 

money and hard work. 

shows how at least 

f modern house- 



-"tv- ^Qtbrihay be done morfe easily, more 

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Every woman should gladly listen to a short ac- 
count of what a Vapor Stove is and what it does; 
she can then buy one or not as she prefers, but she 
will be able to decide intelligently. 

Economy in the kitchen should begin at the point 

where waste is greatest. That point is the cook's 

fire. Science asserts, and experience has proved that 

by far the greater part of the heat produced by the 

modern cook stove is totally 

lost; or, in other words, if in 

one year ten tons of coal are 

burned for ce<5king, not more 

than one^tofi is actually utilized 

— the.^restDeing" wasted . 

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This waste of fuel in a coal stove can be traced to 
tnany causes. Some of them are unavoidable,— such 
as the long time of waiting until there is heat enough 
for cooking, but during which time combustion goes 
on ; the impossibility of quickly stopping that com- 
bustion when the cooking is finished ; as well as the 
great and constant loss of heat up the chimney, and 
into the room, from not being able to use it all as 
fast as it is made. 

Then there is the waste of fuel from avoidable 
causes,— forgetfulness, ignorance and the many other 
dualities which mark the wasteful cook who uses 
two tons of coal where one would easily answer. 

It is not too much to hope that the use of the un- 
improved and unimprovable kitchen stove is nearing 
its end, and that the cooking of the twentieth century 
will be done on a better plan, with less waste, 
with greater comfort, in less time and with surer 
results. 



To command heat, to produce it in a moment, to 
regulate its quantity at will, to concentrate it upon 
one point (reducing radiation to the smallest amount), 
and finally to banish it instantly, is to lower the ex- 
pense of the kitchen fire to one-third its present cost, 
and to increase the comfort of the kitchen itself 
three-fold. This is the problem to be solved, and the 
certain, scientific and only solution is the Vapor 
Stove. 

Its work is two-fold. First, it stops almost every 
jf waste ; and secondly, it applies with great 
heM^actually used. Moreover, besides the 
iience>lojvcost and comfort, we shall find that 
better cobkjngv because it is less uncertain. 

The claims of the Vapor 
Stove are many, but 
they may be clas- 
sified under 
five heads : 




ist. Convenience. With a Vapor Stove the long 
preparation for cooking and the after effects of the 
fire are wholly avoided. Arrange everything in the 
morning for the noon meal ; the potatoes washed and 
in the oven, the meat ready to boil or roast, the 
vegetables prepared on top of the stove,— now the 
mistress can leave the kitchen for hours. She can go 
down-town to attend to social or busine 
duties ; she can go on a round of shopping 
or of visits ; she can sit down to 
sewing-machine ; she can spend 
morn iug with a friend or seek needed''' 
rest. 

Entering the kitchen half 
three-quarters of an hour before di 
ncr, she has but to light the burners. 
Dinner is now at once^going 
ward without the 
or her attentij 
" doing itse> 

By t be/ww//^^^j^^---^^H^ table is set, the 
butter, /r/^U) ///n / WuBfflf'£p{ c < P nt in P^ce, the 






bread cut, and the few other 
edful things done, every 




is ready for a din- 
hot. 



one instant 

out and all is as before. 



^ -No ashes, no coal, no wood, 

no kindling, no dust and no 

flirt ! The whole stove absolutely 

nder your orders at all times, and 

fiot a moment's delay at either 

ErtAiontif. The expense in using a 
Stove is much less than that of a 
ve, as we shall see. They are made 
inj variou^sizes, having usually one, two, three 01 
fibbr burners, any one of which may be used alone, 
or all together, as desired. Each burner costs less 
than one cent per hour. The total cost, then, of a 
large sized Vapor Stove, with all the burners at high- 
est heat, is less than four cents an hour. The price 
of coal varies widely in different parts of the country, 



but in most places where this circular will be read it 
is safe to say that this cost is far below that of an 
ordinary coal stove, in full operation, for the same 
length of time. 

But even this is not all the saving, for one hour's 
work with a Vapor Stove is equal to fully two-and-a- 
half hour's work with a coal stove, as the Vapor 
Stove is at its highest heat in a moment, and is 
started and stopped instantly; while the coal stove 
needs at least three-quarters of an hour to reach its 
fullest power, and as much more time for the fire to 
go out (and waste to cease) after the cooking is 
finished. 

A large Vapor Stove, therefore, costs about one- 
half of one-half (that is, one-fourth) as much as a 
small coal cooking stove, to do the same amount of 
work. 

And this is simply the economy of fuel alone, 
and takes no account of the great saving of labor, as 
well as the saving of sixty per cent, of the time 
employed. 



Then, too, the first cost of the Vapor Stove itself 
(which will last a life-time) is much less than the 
first cost of the coal stove. Besides, there are no lids 
to warp and break, no stove-linings or fire-brick to be 
burned out and replaced every year or two. It is 
much easier to keep clean, and it is more orna- 
mental. It takes less space, and, being very light 
and having no smoke-pipes, it can readily be moved 
to any part of the room or the house. 

3d. Comfort. It is a delight, as every woman 
knows, to go into a perfectly cool, clean kitchen, and 
begin work with a stove that in a few moments has 
reached the boiling and roasting point, and that dur- 
ing all the time of its use, radiates almost no heat, 
and does not, on the average, raise the kitchen ther- 
mometer five degrees in a day. 

Washing and ironing day is robbed of half its 
terrors ; for, instead of a raging fire in stove or 
range, kept up for hours until the whole house is 
heated, a single burner under the boiler and another 
under the little fiat-iron heater, will do just as much 
work, and hardly be felt ten feet away. 



A dinner can thus be cooked by the mistress in 
a white dress, and with the least possible labor. 
There is neither coal, wood nor kindling, smoke nor 
soot. Best of all, there is no dust nor ashes. With 
a Vapor Stove the kitchen becomes one of the 
cleanest, coolest and most delightful rooms in the 
house. In summer especially it is well worth its cost 
for every week it is in use. 

4th. Efficiency. Rvery kind of cooking possible 
-baking, boiling, broiling, roasting, toasting, frying, 
stewing — can be done with 





a Vapor Stove, and usually much better than with 
any other. The full flame is clear, pure and very 
hot. Yet one burner, or all, can be turned down to 
any desired heat, and kept at just that point for 
hours, without change and without attention. 

The miserable uncertainty of the coal fire (too hot 
one moment and a little later too cold) is never a 
source of trouble with gasolene for a fuel. You 
know exactly what your fire is ; and, just as you 
command its appearance or disappearance, so do you 
regulate its volume and intensity to the minutest 
degree. 

In a word, you have done away with all the un- 
certainty which otherwise attends the results of 
cooking. 

Such a source of relief and pleasure will this be- 
come that soon you will wish to do all the cooking 
by this means in winter as well as in summer — the 
kitchen being warmed by the old coal stove, or by a 
small cheap heater which can be easily removed in 
the spring. 



5th. Safety . A Vapor Stove is so simple and so 
easy to handle that even a child can safely use 
it. It needs little care, less knowledge, and no skill 
whatever. The gasolene is contained in a small 
tank which is joined to the stove by a few feet of 
pipe. All that is needed to start the fire is to turn 
a valve, which lets the fluid flow from the tank 
to the burner, where it is then lighted with a 
match. In a few seconds the burner becomes 
hot, and the gasolene in passing through it is 
changed into gas, and burns with a steady, 
pure, intensely hot 
flame. That is 
all there is 
Vapor Stove 
It is perfectl 
simple— sim 
ply perfect 




It needs much less care than a common coal 
stove, and, properly handled, is no more dangerous. 
The careless use of matches and kerosene lamps 
has started many a conflagration, but no reader of this 
pamphlet has ever done away with either of them 
for this cause. Neither should any one hesitate to use 
a Vapor Stove for the same mistaken reason. 

If you have the slightest question in your own 
mind of the truth of what you have read, just see 
one in actual use, and your doubts will vanish in a 
moment. All that is asked of the reader is to look 
into this matter for herself. 

For years the public has been demanding some- 
thing better than the antiquated coal or wood stove. 
Experiments without number have been tried, and the 
oil stove marked one stage of growth. This, though 
a long step in the right direction, proved a disap- 
pointment, and fell far short of what was needed. 

Next comes the Vapor Stove (or Gasolene Stove, 
as it is also called) which has shown itself to be as 
far ahead of the oil stove as that was ahead of the 
coal stove, and it is rapidly taking the place of both 
wherever it has had a trial. 



More than one hundred thousand of these stoves 
are sold in the West every year, and there are over 
a million in use in this country to-day. The intro- 
duction of a single one into a town is always fol- 
lowed by a demand for many more. It is popular 
just as soon as it becomes known. It sells itself. 

Reader, you will surely want a Vapor Stove if 
you will take the trouble to see one in operation. 
Do not neglect any opportunity to learn more about 
this— the coming Cook Stove of the next generation. 




Although wg do not make or sell Vapor Stoves, 
we shall be pleased to give further information to any 
who may desire it, either by letter or by illustrated 
catalogues. 

If you qave any difficulty in obtaining tr\e proper 
grade of gasolene iq your locality, we will see tqat 
the goods are supplied in large or small quantity 
direct from qere or through some dealer iq your 
vicinity. 

Ali letters of inquiry on this subject will receive 
ireful attentioq and prompt reply. 



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